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What Trump’s judicial nominees have in common: they really don’t want LGBTQ people to have rights.

March 13, 2018 compassq Comments Off on What Trump’s judicial nominees have in common: they really don’t want LGBTQ people to have rights.

It’s time to sound the alarm again on another bunch of Trump judges queuing up for confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Like the earlier nominees, they are overwhelmingly white and male. One in three has something explicit in their record and/or their writings that is hostile to LGBTQ rights. “They’re still fighting over whether same sex couples should have the right to marry and have children,”…

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US no longer LGBT rights world leader, says Prime Minister of Ireland.

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on US no longer LGBT rights world leader, says Prime Minister of Ireland.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the US is no longer a world leader in LGBT rights. Mr Varadkar said he believed the majority of American people would agree with him, even if the Trump administration does not. The Taoiseach made the comments during an interview at the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas.

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The Chechnya LGBT crisis – one year on.

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on The Chechnya LGBT crisis – one year on.

It was a spring weekend almost twelve months ago when the LGBTI movement was rocked by news from the Chechen republic in Russia that (perceived) gay and bisexual men were being abducted, imprisoned and tortured for contact details of other (perceived) LGBT people.

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Study: Mexico well ahead of U.S. in LGBTQ rights.

March 8, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Study: Mexico well ahead of U.S. in LGBTQ rights.

Caroline Beer has spent her career researching comparative data between Latin American countries and the United States that often debunks false stereotypes. Her latest study showing Mexico as more progressive than the U.S. when it comes to LGBT rights, especially in the recognition of same-sex relationships, is no exception.

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Here I am, 60 and gay in tech.

March 6, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Here I am, 60 and gay in tech.

Behold my epic legend and hard-earned techniques for surviving as a graying, gay man in tech. I’ve worked in the field for close to 35 years and alternative newspapers before that. I was always interested in changing the status quo through media and associated myself with organizations where I felt I could make a difference.